Identifier: railroadengineer65newy (find matches)
Title: The railroad and engineering journal
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Subjects: Railroad engineering Engineering Railroads
Publisher: New York : M.N. Forney
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ine of the New York & Har-lem Railroad terminates, the road above that point havinga double track only, and just above the crossing of the riverthe tracks of the New Haven road come in. Some timeago, in order to avoid the crossover outside of the GrandCentral Depot in New York, the plan of running theHarlem trains on the left-hand track was adopted, but theNew Haven trains, on their own road, continued to runupon the right-hand track according to the general cus-tom. This involved an additional crossover at the junc-tion, which, of course, always presents elements of delayand danger, and it is to avoid this additional grade cross-ing that the new arrangement has been adopted. The diagram is so plain that very little explanation willbe required. It will be seen that the north-bound NewHaven track under the new arrangement will leave thenorth-bound Harlem track at a point close to the BronxRiver Bridge, and will be carried on a gradually ascending n THE RAILROAD AND ffebruary, iSgt.
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